Example sentences of "are really " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the kind of life which he bestows on his coffee-pot or coffee-grinder , his table , his chair and window , is just the sort of life we feel these things are really living ! |
| 2 | Leaving drama school you do feel as though you are really in control of your destiny . |
| 3 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 4 | Finally , there are large bush trees and trees of orchard size which are really too big for most gardeners to manage . |
| 5 | During local soaring , select good-looking fields , and then go and have a look at them after the flight to see what they are really like . |
| 6 | Perhaps most interesting , but most dangerous , are the very small minority of students who are really chronically affected by this sensation . |
| 7 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 8 | But when one considers the requirements of such a piece of furniture , they are really quite simple : it must be robust , comfortable and elegant . |
| 9 | And what the commentators are really paying homage to , what prompts their sense of coherence and a world revealed , is a feat of illusionist sorcery . |
| 10 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 11 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 12 | Do you want to talk about disarmament or do you want to help those in the White House and in the Kremlin who are really trying to do something effective about it ? ’ |
| 13 | She says : ‘ These theories bear no relation to what children are really like . |
| 14 | There might be funfairs everywhere , but the real Disneyland was neither crumbling , nor swept by bitter winds off the Irish Sea , nor cursed by hotels that are really gimcrack boarding houses , nor served by superannuated London cabs displaying notices saying that if you 're so drunk that you 're sick inside , a cleaning fee of £10 will be payable to the driver . |
| 15 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 16 | He flatly rejected talks with the opposition , saying : ‘ We do n't need suggestions for the improvement of socialism that are really intended to cause its demise . ’ |
| 17 | Such is what the traditional doctrines of divine omnipotence , preservation and providence are really saying . |
| 18 | Pensioners who just have their state pensions are really suffering . |
| 19 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 20 | As the policemen and women themselves note , these tasks are really forms of public relations ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 13 ) . |
| 21 | The activity holidays on offer are really best suited to groups . |
| 22 | Remember the strong vested interest of politicians in alleging other causes of inflation , because if they can persuade the public that other causes than their own behaviour are really at work , then they will be able to transfer the responsibility from themselves to other people . |
| 23 | You are really saying , ‘ We must find a way to do the impossible . ’ |
| 24 | We are really looking for original material performed in an original way . ’ |
| 25 | The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite . |
| 26 | A related problem with the psychoanalytic account is the implication that so many different kinds of close relationship between heterosexually identified men , be they complicated or simple , conflicted or supportive , brutally vindictive or discerningly tender , are really rooted in repressed homosexuality . |
| 27 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 28 | You are really much better than you think you are . ’ |
| 29 | It is a living example which shows that the accusations of short-termism levelled against the City are really not valid — certainly in this respect . |
| 30 | You 've got to ensure that your products are really first class and you have to have first-class people at every level . |